She nodded:
"Indeed there is. Me father felt it for me mother or I wouldn't be here now. Me father loved me mother with all his strength and all his soul."
"Could YOU ever feel it?" he asked, and there was an anxious look in his eyes as he waited for her to answer.
She nodded.
"HAVE you ever felt it?" he went on.
"All me life," answered Peg in a whisper.
"As a child, perhaps," remarked Jerry. "Some DAY it will come to you as a woman and then the whole world will change for you."
"I know," replied Peg softly. "I've felt it comin'."
"Since when?" and once again suspense was in his voice.
"Ever since—ever since—" suddenly she broke off breathlessly and throwing her arms above her head as though in appeal she cried: